New! EG4 PowerPro Budget Model: 14.3kWh LiFePO4 Battery for $3,431

so today's battery is called the eg4

Power Pro and it's for people that do

not have back problems because this

thing is heavy it weighs

282 lb and to get this out of the box so

I could make this video was very

difficult I did it on my own though with

a hand truck so I know you guys can

figure it out if you have some friends

around now the main difference of this

model in the previous model is that this

one is rated for indoor use only the

older model is rated for out outdoor use

but this still has the internal heaters

if you have a cold environment also

because it's indoor rated it actually

costs less money and actually it's

cheaper than server rack batteries or

any other 48volt batteries but it has

the same feature set as a powerpro

outdoor rated battery also multiple

Distributors will be selling this as

well including current connected so if

you like their customer service and

support check out their website cuz

they'll have packages with this and

they're going to be selling this with

the 6000 XP and that should be a very

good combination this is indoor rated

the 6000 XP is indoor rated but you get

the most features and output for the

lowest amount of money but first let's

go over the basic features first off it

has a 14.3 KW hour battery with lithium

iron phosphate and the cells are rated

to 8,000 Cycles next it has a 200 amp

BMS and it has bus bars up here with

four ampol connectors rated for 600 amps

so you can connect this to lots of other

batteries in parallel or you can connect

it to lots of inverters in parallel so

if you have three 6000 XPS and you have

two of these or whatever other

combination you want to connect them in

it's very easy to do so next it has a

color touch screen which is pretty darn

cool and it takes a second to load up

because it goes into standby mode cuz it

doesn't want to use the electricity

imagine having this large screen on all

day on a battery that would be illogical

so it turns itself off and on the main

whoops no it really turns itself off

quickly and on the main screen you have

the communication the state of charge

and then you have the voltage the total

capacity and how much current is going

in or out and under settings you can

change your communication protocol up

here the language you can see the

firmware version and you can also see

the the voltage of individual cells and

next you have the temperature which

there's four temperature sending units

or sensors in there and that's it now on

the top you have the anel connectors and

this is where you connect your inverters

and other batteries in parallel this is

the positive bus bar and this is the

negative bus bar and this is quite a bit

different than the outdoor model these

ones face straight up and they're on the

top but on the outdoor model they're

actually on the sides you can see them

connected right there and they're facing

outward also the communication ports are

on the side but not on this one they're

actually on the top to connect other

inverters and batteries you need ampol

connectors and it comes with two of them

with each battery but you might need to

order more especially if you put

batteries in a parallel and all they do

is snap into place just like that so

we're going to use this to connect to

6,000 XP and on the side we have the on

and off switch and a circuit breaker and

this is how we turn it on on woo that

was

hard and on the back you have a mounting

plate if you wish to mount this on a

wall and it also has a rope on the top

and the bottom so you can move the

battery easier but even with these ropes

it's very hard to move it's very heavy

but these do help so there are handles

on this side but I prefer this rope and

using my body to push against it and

Shuffle it around slowly so I'll tilt it

and then push it and then tilt it and

then push it

but don't tilt too far unless it will

fall and break and then slowly bring it

back but I'm telling you you need to be

careful this is a lot of weight and lift

with your back not your

knees imagine if there's not a battery

inside and it's just Geral food and then

you have like three Geral on Wheels and

they just run all day long be better if

we had nuclear reactors I mean it's 2024

but no this is a lot of screws oh there

we go but we've got a screen so we've

got a cable in there

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somewhere that is dangerous the amount

of stuff that can short out right here

now with open batteries like this you do

not want to drop a tool like this on

these terminals man it just makes me

nervous even looking at it these are

welded and screwed on I've seen that on

a couple batteries in the past but I

didn't know they did it on the power now

the overall build quality is very

similar to most server rack batteries so

nothing really special here now I don't

see the heaters so let's look around

closer but this is actually pretty

special look at how big these bus bars

are and how it's connected to the

circuit breaker this is rated for DC so

it's massive and man I love how the anol

connector connects to it that is solid I

think these are heating elements and

they connect to the metal that surrounds

the cells wait a second these are not

heaters these are fire extinguishers

they have sensors over here and then the

heater conductors actually go between

the cells I should have known they

always cover it with this white stuff

whenever you have heaters and lithium

iron phosphate batteries now I know what

you guys are thinking why would you have

a fire extinguisher system inside of a

lithium iron phosphate battery but

that's actually for Code Compliance also

if this BMS were to fail it's nice to

have something that can put put out that

fire but these cells are very safe and

you're not going to have a

self-propagating thermal runaway event

with lithium iron phosphate it's like

the safest chemistry around but you have

to have these in here anyways now all

the connection seems secure everything

seems pretty good this seems like a

pretty good battery we have to put this

lid on very carefully you do not want to

drop

it that was

easy

so there's three holes on the top and

three holes on the bottom the center

hole you want to hit a stud and then for

the side holes you can just move it out

of the way and then put the drywall

anchors after you mark

it

that's ugly

that's not

good that's

better and we have a system just need to

hook up some solar and some loads and

we're done how easy is that that's crazy

for the price of this this is less than

like an 18K and you get the battery as

well so you can go off grid for like a

cabin very cheaply

now

so I fired up and I have zero voltage

and that's because it's looking for a

battery so we're going to set up the

battery communication so what you need

is the orange cable and we're going to

plug this into the can and then feed

this up here into the battery

communication port and then you need to

set the identifier dip switch so all the

switches should be on except for the

first one and it should look just like

this and then you turn the battery on

and off again and then turn this

on and then it should show you the state

of charge and there should be some lines

right here and the capacity in amp hours

and now the inverter just turned on and

you should see 120 volts right there and

then it should have a smiley face down

here so that means everything is

actually running properly and we can

connect loads so now this is a complete

system that can actually turn on and we

can now do a load test and this is a 240

volt space heater and this takes 6,000

watts to power so this is a good test

for the inverter and the battery and

it's on and now it's on

high and it's pulling 6,000 ws and on

the battery it says we're pulling 118

amps but this battery can output 200

amps that's 9,600 W and on the screen it

shows that we're only pulling 90% of its

rated output capacity so it can

technically do a little bit more but

this is what it's rated for it seems to

be running pretty well so I guess I'll

come back in like 10 minutes but this is

a purely resistive load with a small fan

so it's not that challenging but I can't

think of any other loads than a massive

heat gun so yeah this is the max I can

do with just a single inverter it would

be nice if we had two of these connected

to a single battery that would be

awesome that would exceed its rated

output so that would not be that good

but keep in mind if you want the full

output of 2 6000 XPS you need two eg4

power Pro batteries so there probably

will be kits on the websites from all

the Distributors and signature solar

selling kits with two batteries and two

6,000 XPS all right let's turn this off

now unfortunately this was supposed to

have a conduit box just like the 18K it

was supposed to go between these two

devices but they never sent one out for

me but if you buy these together you

should get that conduit box and it will

hide these cables now something you can

do with just this battery in a single

6000 XP is run run an electric vehicle

charger a level two charger at 25 amps

and you could throw some solar panels

out on the ground or just have a small

array and you can run an electric

vehicle with a system that costs less

than

$55,000 that's pretty darn cool this is

like a mini gas station and it will pay

for itself very quickly or you can run

heat pumps 2 40 volt heat pumps that's

not an issue either so fast forward a

week later and we have the conduit box

but I'm not going to install it until I

get a second indoor model because I want

to have two 6000 XPS connected to two

indoor eg4 Power Pros also something I

noticed this week is that the vertical

bus bars are very useful for mounting

configurations because on the outdoor

model you have to have a whole foot

between each battery and those can take

up a lot of space but with these you can

put them side by side you will not be

able to access the on and off switch and

the circuit breaker but after it's all

set up you can move it into place

connect it with some anels connect the

Communication cable and you're done and

under normal circumstances you shouldn't

have to turn it on or off or flip the

breaker if everything's working properly

also this week I connected a Nema 1450

to the AC input of the 6000 XP and I

charged it up to 100% And once it was

fully charged you get four bars so these

bars also show you the capacity so you

don't have to touch on the screen and

wait for it to load you can just look at

your batteries and see if they're fully

charged which is pretty useful now if

you put these batteries side by side

like I was saying you can do it with the

conduit box it doesn't extend that far

off of The Edge so you could actually

have like an inch between each battery

and still use the conduit box also this

has lots of knockout holes compared to

the older one that I used to have and it

should make it look pretty nice when

it's all connected now this year there's

going to be lots of other Distributors

and manufacturers making vertical Mount

batteries like this one so we'll see who

comes out ahead in the end but it should

be some fun competition and I should

have those batteries in the next month

or two so I'll make videos about those

right when I get them now before we end

this video I want to tell you guys to

disable your ad blocker if you use an

affiliate link to purchase this because

I found out last week that over 75% of

the traffic that goes through my links

is not tracked because people use ad

blockers and then I don't get a

commission at all so please oh please

disable your ad blocker for 5 seconds

and then click on the link and then it

should work and then turn it back on

after you make a purchase and I can't

think of a solution besides asking you

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can turn your ad blocker off I would

really appreciate it um if you have any

more questions or tests on this battery

please let me know down below but yeah

we'll see if it has new competition this

year and we'll see if it still works in

the next couple months um so thank you

so much for watching and I will see you

in the next video bye